Today, I hosted Representative Ken Calvert, the Republican Leader of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and Rep. Jake Ellzey, a fellow fighter pilot and member of the MACH 1 Caucus, in San Angelo for a tour of Goodfellow Air Force Base.
We were briefed on the intelligence training mission of the base, housing constraints, joint service capabilities, and fire protection school.
Goodfellow Air Force Base is irreplaceable. It is the single most important military base for the DoD intelligence apparatus and the United States intelligence community. The base has graduated hundreds of thousands of national security professionals who work around the world to keep Americans safe.
It was an honor to host the top Republican on the committee that allocates funding for our national defense at Goodfellow to showcase how critical our base is to national security.
Goodfellow has graduated over 360,000 trained professionals since its founding in 1950. Many of these service members have gone on to fill positions in principal intelligence organizations like the CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, and Goodfellow graduates are deployed to every theatre around the world.
The award-winning military/community partnership between Goodfellow and San Angelo is remarkable and should inspire other communities to rally around our military.
My office created a flyer showcasing the importance of Goodfellow to national security. You can view that here.
